AN EDWARDIAN MAHOGANY PEDESTAL DESK

AFTER A DESIGN BY THOMAS CHIPPENDALE, EARLY 20TH CENTURY

AN EDWARDIAN MAHOGANY PEDESTAL DESK
After a design by Thomas Chippendale, early 20th century
The rectangular top of stepped outline inset with a red leather and gilt-tooled writing surface, the carved moulded edge above three frieze drawers, the frieze to each side with card-cut lattice decoration in the Chinese taste, below acanthus-headed cluster columns flanking an arrangement of three drawers to each side, the drawers to the left pedestal each fitted with divisions, on a plinth base, the locks to the drawers stamped 'Milner's/Safe Company/Limited', one drawer inscribed in chalk to the underside 'Reid Glasgow' and another drawer with a depository label to the underside 'Robertson Bros Ltd. Woking/Reid No. 46.'
28½ in. (72.4 cm.) high; 60 in. (152.5 cm.) wide; 33¾ in. (86 cm.) deep

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The Chippendale desk, conceived in the eclectic George II Modern fashion, relates to a Library Table pattern in Thomas Chippendale's Gentleman and Cabinet-Makers Director, 1754 (pl. 85), and appears to have been inspired by the Writing Table from the Percy Dean Collection popularised by Percy Macquoids, History of English Furniture, The Age of Mahogany (London, 1906 pl. XII).

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